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j'fiatznt ABEL PUTNAM, Ja, or SARATOGA sPRiNes; NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 108,824, dated Noveniber 1, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAUCETS.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABEL PUTXAM, J r., of Saratoga Springs,-in thecounty of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented anew andimproved Faucet; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in whichFigure l is a longitudinal vertical section Figure-2 is a side view, asadjusted for transporta tion.

Figure 3 is a front view, the spigot being removed.

This invention relates to that class of faucets used in connection withvessels containin g beer, soda-water, and other liquids, and compressedair, carbonic-acid gas, or other expansive gas, and it particularlyrelates to the class of such faucets in which a plug containing apassage for the fluid, a valve to close it, and an air-ventis insertedinto the barrel or vessel, and is 0p-' era-ted in connection with adetachable spigot.

My invention consists in the means hereinafter described for readilyeffecting a communication between the air-vent of the plug and that ofthe spigot when the latter is in use, and the combination therewith ofthe spring-valve and other parts of the plug.

in the drawing- A is the plug, containing an air-vent, a, and a passage,a, for the fluid, closed by means of a spring valve, 1) this insertedinto the barrel or vessel B, and

fastened thereto by means of rivets or screws rrpassing through acollar, 0, cast on the plug and fitting The stem of the valve extendsthrough the whole length of the plug,

and when the valve is seated projects slightly from the end thereof. 1

The barrel is filled by attaching the hose or fillingtube to the outerend of the plug, and screwing it on till it presses against the end ofthe valve-stem and opens the valve. When the vessel is full the pressureof the liquid or gas closes the valve as soon as the hose is removed.

A cap, E, may then'be screwed on, as shown in fig. 2, closing both thepassages a and a, and leaving the vessel ready for transportation. \Vhenit arrives at its destination and the liquid is to be used, the cap.

E is removed and a spigot, S, substituted in its place.- The screwing onof the spigot opens the valve, as shown in fig. 1, and leaves the liquidunder the control of the cock D.

In the face of the collar 0 is a groove, a, concentric with the largerpassage to of plug A.

An air-vent, a is made in the spigot, the end of which, when the spigotis screwed on, terminates in the annular groove 11, so that, however thespigot may be turned, the communication between the passages a a throughthe groove a is always open.

When the cock D is open it opens the air-vent a and when closed itcloses it, so that there is no danger of the air-vent being left openthoughtlessly.

Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-" tcrs Patent, is-V 1. In a faucet, the conibination of the annular groove 11. with thepassages a (0 as and for the purpose described.

2. The plug A, having the valve 1), passage to, and

groove 11-, in combination with the spigot S, having the passage a andthe cock D, substantially as and for the purpose specified The abovespecification of my invention signed by me this 26th day of September,A. D. 1870.

ABEL PUTNAM, J n.

Witnesses:

SOLON' G. Kmron, Tues. D. D. OURAND.

